…who is under the covers on the couch, recovering from the stomach flu.
Mom: “I told her that it was whale-watching season and her eyes lit up.”
Me: “Yeah?”
Elena: “Yeah. I didn’t know.”
Me: “Yeah, it’s pretty cool, they all come up on shore to watch us.”
Sorry for no posts yesterday — we’re having a fun time around here at home… a combination of a diabetic kid and a stomach flu is tricky to manage; she can’t keep anything down, but we have to keep her blood sugars up, and then keep them down, and so on… without food, which is our usual main tool for pushing sugars up.
Anyway, you might have noticed the addition of the “other posts you might be interested in” thingie at the bottom of posts now, before the comments thread. That’s because I was too lazy to keep linking all of the disparate posts on single-player games manually.
Here I am listening to a panel and taking notes, and I figured, hey, I can share some of these with you. These are just my rough notes, not really a transcription. The talk had pretty heavy overlap with some stuff Will’s presented before.
How other fields can inform interactive design
Games exhibit “film envy,” taking too much inspiration from linear media. We shouold be looking at more fields to draw learning from.
Read More “Living Game Worlds 2006: Will Wright’s keynote”
Lasy night, being up checking the web and writing about Bruce’s book at 2am meant that I barely woke up in time today to make it to our tour of the very cool stuff being done at Georgia Tech in the games, augmented reality, and interface areas. Boy, am I glad I woke up. Here, take a brief illustrated tour wih me — warning, a bunch of photos may make this slow to open.
I promise this wil be the last post on this subject in a while…!
This made me wonder, Raph, how you define a single player game?
A game that is not played in opposition to, or in parallel with, or collaboratively with, someone else.
But I suspect that won’t be sufficient, because you will also need to understand my definitions of “game”, “played,” and “parallel.”
Read More “Have single-player games ever existed?”
